Jobs created at high cost to taxpayers

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Jan 31, 2011 at 12:01 AMJan 31, 2011 at 11:52 AM

A total of 651,570 jobs were created or saved by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or federal stimulus money, according to the EPE Research Center, a division of the Editorial Projects in Education.

A total of 651,570 jobs were created or saved by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or federal stimulus money, according to the EPE Research Center, a division of the Editorial Projects in Education.

As of Sept. 30, the federal government had distributed $242.6 billion in funding. That equals $372,331 for every job created or saved.

Where did all that money go? It certainly did not take that amount of money to create or save jobs.

Once again, it proves that government cannot effectively create jobs. By the way, the data came from the recovery.gov website. Surely there are better ways to create jobs.

TIM PHILLIPS

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